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Monthly Archives (August 2010)
Situations
End of Third World
From Third World to New South
The Hindu,  27 August , Jorge Heine
With fast-growing, large economies that speak from strength rather than weakness, the South does not ask for aid, but demands to be able to trade.
Clash of Religions
Religious intolerance and Indonesia’s future
Jakarta Post,  16 August , Elwin Tobing, Azusa

The increasingly alarming trend of religious intolerance in recent years should prompt us to ask: Is this the nation Indonesia wants?

ISI Assessment
Islamist terrorists are a bigger threat than India
LiveMint,  17 August , Lalit K Jha
The assessment, WSJ said, a regular review of national security allocated a two-thirds likelihood of a major threat to Pakistan coming from militants rather from India or elsewhere
Chinese dam projects raise alarm in Asia
Asahi Shimbun,  15 August , Yukifumi Takeuchi And Tetsu Kobayashi
Rivers in Asia that cross national borders are becoming a new source of confrontation among nations.
Iran Sanctions
Renewed diplomatic overtures to Iran
The Hindu,  09 August , David e. Sanger
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, arguing that an orchestrated series of global sanctions has brought more economic pain than Iran's government anticipated, are making a renewed appeal to Iranian leaders to reopen negotiations on the country's nuclear programme.
Pakistan’s Army
General Kayani's quiet coup
The Hindu,  03 August , Praveen Swami
Late in April, Ashfaq Pervez Kayani stood before a solemn audience that had gathered to mark Martyrs Day.
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